The Social Radars Christina Cacioppo, Founder & CEO, Vanta
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Jan 20, 2026 
Christina Cacioppo, Founder and CEO of Vanta, shares her inspiring journey from teaching herself to code to tackling the complex world of cybersecurity and compliance. She discusses the challenges of achieving SOC 2 certifications and how she identified the pain points companies face. From her unique approach of prioritizing customer feedback over immediate funding to delaying her Series A until reaching $10M in ARR, Christina emphasizes the importance of discipline and understanding in entrepreneurship. Her experiences at Dropbox and Union Square Ventures shape her insights on being a founder.
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Get Credit For Your Security Work
- Help customers get credit for security work by documenting and proving it through audits or status reports.
- Automate evidence collection so teams don’t lose engineering time to manual auditor requests.
Many Ways To Be A Founder
- There are many valid founder paths beyond the stereotypical drop-out hacker narrative.
- Meeting diverse founders revealed multiple ways to build successful startups.
Quit, Learn To Code, Build A Real Project
- Christina quit her VC job and used her bonus to treat learning to code like a full-time job.
- She built a bookshelf web app from Steve Huffman's Udacity course as her first project.